Needle Felting
Needle Felting Fur
Smooth felt looks like felt. Four methods for making a surface that reads as fur, and when each one is the right answer.
4 min read Advanced
Topic
Animals — page 2
Needle Felting
Needle Felted Face
Faces are made by taking wool away, not adding it. The order of operations that gets a head from a ball to a character, for animals and dolls alike.
4 min read Advanced
Needle Felting
Needle Felting Eyes
Eyes are the last thing you add and the first thing anyone looks at. The three types, how to sink them so they belong in the face, and the highlight that brings them alive.
4 min read Intermediate
Wet Felting
Wet Felting Animals
Wet felting makes bodies, not faces. Build the animal as a hollow form over a resist, full it hard, then dry-felt the detail on top — that combination is how the best felted animals are made.
4 min read Intermediate
Projects
How to Make Felt Mice
A mouse is one shape. Get the teardrop right — fat at the back, tapering to a point at the nose — and the ears, tail and eyes take five minutes.
4 min read Beginner
Needle Felting
Wire Armature for Needle Felting
How to build a wire armature that lets a felted figure stand, bend and stay bent — and how to wrap it so the needles never meet the wire.
4 min read Intermediate